Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.